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title: Downgrading to a free organization plan
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  - /downgrading-to-a-free-org-plan
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import shared from '~/shared.js'

<Note>

**Note:** This article only applies to users of the public npm registry.

</Note>

If you are a subscriber to the npm Teams product (you have a paid organization) and you are an owner of the organization, then you can downgrade from npm Teams to a free organization. When you downgrade from a paid to a free organization, you and your organization members will lose the ability to install and publish private packages at the end of your last paid billing cycle. Your private packages will _not_ be made publicly visible when you downgrade to a free plan.

**Note:** If you would like to pay for fewer seats, you can remove members from your organization by following the steps in "[Removing members from your organization][remove-members]".

1. <>{shared['user-login'].text}</>

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2. <>{shared['account-settings'].text}</>

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3. In the left sidebar, click the name of the organization you want to downgrade.

   <>{shared['organization-selection'].image}</>

4. <>{shared['organization-billing-tab'].text}</>

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5. <>{shared['billing-downgrade-selection'].text}</>

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6. <>{shared['billing-downgrade-confirm'].text}</>

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[remove-members]: removing-members-from-your-org
